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Trump administration to use Pentagon AI to set mineral reference prices — gallium and germanium among first four targets

Summary by Tom's Hardware
The Trump administration wants to use DARPA's Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN), an AI tool launched in 2023, to calculate what supplies of strategically important rare earths should cost once labor, processing, and other inputs are factored in and the effects of alleged Chinese market manipulation are removed.
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Tom's Hardware broke the news in on Wednesday, February 25, 2026.
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